IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Irwin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986KS015004
  • User Pedon ID: 86KS015004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59306
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 38.0708351
  • Std. Longitude: -96.8819427
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23S
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 1500 feet east and 50 feet north of the SW corner of the SE 1/4
  • Location Description: Near burns in Butler County, KS.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS015—Butler
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jim R. Fortner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Irwin
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Irwin
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Pachic Argiustoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—53

    25—122

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    2

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    460

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    270

    81

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    14

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    1A—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, moist; silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; strong fine granular structure; hard, friable; 5.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00049. many fine roots throughout
    1Bt1—25 to 53 centimeters (9.8 to 20.9 inches);, 50 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and 50 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; silty clay; 45 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00050. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 221247; continuous - phpvsfiid 221247
    1Bt2—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, moist; silty clay; 50 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00051. Numerous cracks filled with (10YR 3/2) material.; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 221248; continuous - phpvsfiid 221248
    1Bt3—76 to 122 centimeters (29.9 to 48.0 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, moist; silty clay; 50 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00052. 96 to 107 cm. Layer has about 20% chert fragments up to 2 cm in size.; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 221249; continuous - phpvsfiid 221249
    1BC—122 to 180 centimeters (48.0 to 70.9 inches);, 60 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior and 40 percent dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) interior, moist; silty clay; 50 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 1 percent medium irregular iron-manganese masses; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 87P00053. few medium soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations